Book description
An expert's guide to open source project management with Redmine
About This Book
- Learn Redmine through the basic topics to the mastering ones
- Customize Redmine without breaking upgrade compatibility
- Become an expert of Redmine after having read this comprehensive guide with tips, tricks and best practices.
Who This Book Is For
This book is best suited for project managers and Redmine administrators who have working knowledge of Redmine and who now want to get advanced practical knowledge to manage and monitor projects effectively and efficiently.
What You Will Learn
- Forget about troubles with installing and configuring Redmine
- Feel at ease with using Redmine wiki syntax
- Get familiar with the permissions system and issue life cycle in Redmine
- Use Redmine for issue tracking, project hosting, project management, and time tracking
- Find and choose plugins, and get familiar with some of the most useful Redmine plugins
In Detail
Redmine is not only one of the popular open source project management applications but also one of the best project hosting and issue tracking solutions.
This book is an update of our previous successful edition, Mastering Redmine. This book is a comprehensive guide that will give you a detailed practical understanding on how to effectively manage, monitor and administer complex projects using Redmine.
You will get familiar with the concept of Issue Tracking and will get to know why and what makes Redmine one of the best issue trackers. Another main part of Redmine functionality, which is Managing projects shows why this is one of the best applications for project hosting. Furthermore, you will learn more about Redmine rich text formatting syntax, access control and workflow and time Tracking. Towards the end, you will unleash the power of custom fields and guides to show how to customize Redmine without breaking upgrade compatibility.
By the end of the book, you will have a deep practical understanding on how to effectively monitor and manage large scale and complex projects using Redmine.
Style and approach
A comprehensive practical guide that will help the readers from custom configuration to integration of complex plugins and applications, and will leverage Redmine in appropriate situations for better and efficient results.
Table of contents
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Mastering Redmine Second Edition
- Table of Contents
- Mastering Redmine Second Edition
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewer
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Getting Familiar with Redmine
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2. Installing Redmine
- Introduction to installation options
- Installing Redmine from a package
- Installing Redmine and MySQL server
- Verifying and completing the installation
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Installing Redmine from sources
- Downloading and installing Redmine
- Configuring the database
- Installing Ruby and Bundler
- Installing dependencies
- Installing the MySQL server, Apache, and Passenger
- Setting up the database
- Finalizing the Redmine installation
- Configuring Apache
- Verifying and completing the installation
- Upgrading Redmine
- Other installation options
- Summary
- 3. Configuring Redmine
- 4. Issue Tracking
- 5. Managing Projects
- 6. Text Formatting
- 7. Access Control and Workflow
- 8. Time Tracking
- 9. Personalization
- 10. Plugins and Themes
- 11. Customizing Redmine
- A. Quick Syntax Reference
- Index
Product information
- Title: Mastering Redmine - Second Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2016
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781785881305
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